Ft. Benning (1)

FORT BENNING, GA SCENES
Tough Shoes To Fill the original test platoon, shown here, were the first Americans to 'stand in the door' and determined whether our chute technology worked.	Jump Instructors, Ft. Benning pose in front the the "iron monsters", the parachute towers.	Jump Training June 1943 Alan Newby jumping, at left (Picture appears in Chapter Three, "The All Americans" by Leroy Thompson.)	Spartan Accommodations don't seem to have wiped the smiles off these faces
30 Foot Towers were employed to get the feel of jumping from the aircraft and to simulate the landing impact	Checking Progress Lt. Col. Lindquist and Tom Shanley watch trainees on the 30 foot jump towers. Shanley was probably a Major at the time of this photo.	Packing Shed is where used parachutes were laid out on long tables to facilitate the repacking process. Initially each trainee had to learn to pack his own chute ... and then jump with it!	Success! a parachutist trainee nears the ground on one of his five qualification jumps.